Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3864, Henry Gaines, Va

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Gaines, Henry or Gains, or Ganes,
R. 3864
CONTENTS
Catherine or Rayty

4831
Catharine Gaines of Henry Kentucky
Henry died 1811/1812

State of Kentucky Owen County 1838
On the 14 th day of March 1838 personally appeared before me Lewis White a justice of the peace in & for the county aforesaid Katy gains aged 72 years who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed July the 4 th 1836 the declarant states that she was the widow of Henry gains who was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army she states that about the month of may in the year 1779 he the said Henry gains did enter in the virginia continent- al line under the command of Captain Christopher Blackburn & marched from Essex County State of Virg to the Battle of Petersburg & thence to the isle of white Church thence to Little York on the 19 th of Oct 1783 and then ret- urned home after having been about two years in the service of his country discharging his duty faithfully as a soldier as will satisfactorily appear from the affidavit of John Kirby she further states that she was married to the said Henry gains about the first of March 1779 which marriage she states she is able to prove by respectable living witness that her husband the aforesaid Henry gains departed this life on the first day of June 1812 as will appear from the proof here annexed and that she the said Katy gains has remained a widow ever since sworn & subscribe on the day and year above written Lewis White Justice Katy gains mark

I John Kirby of Owen County Kentucky State that I was a regular soldier in the Virginia Continental line during the war of Revolution and was well acquainted with the late Henry Gains and do well know that he was in the Battle of Peter's Burg & the siege of White Church and also the Battle of Little York on the 27 th of Oct 1781 he states he believes the said Henry Gains belonged to the Third Va Regiment under Capt Christopher Blackburn and he thinks Commanded by Colonel Heath given from under my hand this 14 th day of March 1838 — John Kirby
County of Owen State of Kentucky Personally appeared before me Lewis White justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid John Kirby who is well known to me an aged and respectable citizen and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit given from under my hand this 14 day of March 1838 Lewis White J.P.
I Nancy Taylor of Owen County & State of Kentucky do hereby certify that I was present at the marriage of Nancy Gains & Henry Gains & do state that I think it was the first of March 1779 given from under my hand this 14 th day of March 1838 Nancy Taylor
County of Owen and State of Kentucky Personally appeared before me Lewis White justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid Nancy Taylor who is well known to me to be an aged and respectable lady and subscribed and made oath to the fore going affidavit given from under my hand this 14 day of March 1838
Lewis White J.P.

I Nancy Taylor of Owen county & State of Kentucky do State that I was well acquainted with the late Henry Gains I do well know he was in the wars of the Revolution on the Revolutional line, and served as a Privileged Soldier about ten years given from under my hand this 14 th day of March 1835
Nancy Taylor
County of Owen and State of Kentucky Personally appeared before me Lewis White a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid Nancy Taylor who is well known to me to be an aged and respectable Lady and Subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit given from under my hand this 14 day of March 1835
Lewis White Esqr
Kentucky Owen County Set
I M Mc Bacon Clerk of the court for the County aforesaid certify that Lewis White Esqr is a Justice of the peace for Owen County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Witness whereof I have here unto set my name and affixed the seal of my office in Owensboro this 11 th day of February 1839
M Mc Bacon Clk

I Nancy Saylor of Owen county and State of Ky do state that the aforesaid Henry James departed this life on the first day of June 1814 given from under my hand this 14 day of March 1838 Nancy Saylor
County of Owen and State of Kentucky personally appeared before me Lewis White Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid Nancy Saylor who is well known to me to be an respectable lady and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit given from under my hand this 14 day of March 1838 Lewis White Justice of the peace
4831
4831 Catharine Francis of Henry Kentucky
Henry died 1814

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section HRE/eel OW
September 30, 1929
Olive Boggs newton Pickens South Carolina
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 3864 , it appears that Henry Gaines (the name also appears as Gains and Ganes) married about March 1, 1779, Catherine or Kayty, her maiden name is not shown. He died June 1, 1814. His age is not given.
His widow, Catherine, applied for pension in Owen County, Kentucky, on March 14, 1838, at which time she was aged seventy-three years, and alleged that her husband, Henry Gaines, enlisted in May, 1779, marched from Essex County, Virginia, as a private in Captain Christopher Blackburn's Company, Colonel Heth's Virginia Regiment and was in the battles of Petersburg, Isle of Wight Church and the Siege of Yorktown, after which he was discharged, having served about two years.
The widow's claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of the alleged service as was required by

the pension law.
In 1844, she was a resident of Owen County, Kentucky. She died prior to 1854.
A son, Henry Gaines, is referred to. One H.H. Gaines was administrator of the estate of Catherine Gaines. His relationship to the family is not stated.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

Catharine Games of Henry Kentucky
Suspended
Act 10 Dec 39
Wm W. Southgate
Act to suspend the sale of the
on the 12th of March 1840
do do June 3 1840
Act to suspend the sale of the
March 3/59
Act 11 July 1836

4831
Dec 6
Ken
July 4 1836
Hon.
From
L. L. Edwards Comm. Pigeons Washington City

Covington Ky 29 Nov 1839
Sir
I have the honor to enclose the declaration of Mrs. James (widow) which was placed in my hands in July last and which I have neglected to forward. Will you do me the favor to give this case an early examination and advise me
Very Resp't I have the honor W. H. Southgate

Amended Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836 State of Kentucky } Owren County }
Be it known that on this 14 th day of March 1844 Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Catherine Gains a resident of the County of Owren State of Kentucky aged 90 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 That she is the widow of Henry Gains who was a soldier of the revolution as set forth in her former declaration and she has no family second her said husband had one which is either lost or destroyed in John Herby by whom she procured her husband's pension has been dead for several years and she knows of no person by whom she can procure any thing more than she has already procured and from her great age and loss of memory she is unable to state at this great length of time more than she has already stated

And that her Husband the aforesaid Henry Gains died at the time named in her former declar- ation and she has remained a widow ever since that Period as will more fully appear by referance to the Proof on file and hereto Annexed
her Catherine Gains mark
State of Kentucky County of Owen
Be it known That on this 14 day of March 1844 Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Owen Catherine Gains who cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court and from her appearance she must be about sixty years old and is well known to me to be a woman of Respectably Truth and piety and to have been a widow for more than twenty years and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration of the truth of which I do most fully concur given under my hand this day and date and date above written
Lewis White Jr

State of Kentucky Owen County ss
I N M c Bacon Clerk of the Court of Owen County Certify that Levi White is a Magistrate and that his Name appears to the foregoing Certificate and that he is one of the Justices of the Owen County Court and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my law office this 16 th day of March 1844
N M c Bacon Clerk

L. C. Suggott
Mar 21 1845

Pen H March 21 Sp3
Sir
In reply to your enqui- ry respecting the case of Catharine Gains I would refer you to the enclosed copy of my letter to Hon. W.W. Southgate of 10 Decr. '39. No papers have been recd. since the date of that letter. As her marriage took place in our here must be a record of the issue of the licence unless destroyed by some conflagration.
Lewis C Suggatt Esq. Georgetown Ky.

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Col J L Edwards Commissioner of the Washington City P.D.

Long Lick Scott Co Feb 28 th 1843
Dear Sir
At the Request of Mrs Catherine Gains widow Henry Gains I now write to you in relation to her Pension claim I am informed by her son Henry Gains that the Papers were forwarded by the Hon Mr Southgate some 5 or 6 years ago and they have never heard from them She provided her Husband serve by old Mr Curly a Pensioner She resides in adams County Kentucky and is very poor and need aid I hope you will have the kindness to attend to her case as soon as convenient
I have the honor to be with great respect Yours most obedient Servt Lewis C Guggins
Col J J Edwards Washington City D.C.

128 War Dept. Pensions Oct 6. 10 th 1883
Sir
The declaration and testimony in the case of the Catherine Gaines widow of Henry Gaines does have been & filed. The period of marriage it would appear in  alleged to have been in  1777 and her husband entered the service in May 1779, and after his marriage she is not therefore entitled to a pension under the act of July 1836. She should make a declaration under the act of July 1836 as required in the enclosed pensioner sheet.
The service is alleged to have been as an enlisted soldier of the Subordinate under Capt Christopher Blackburn. His name is not found in the records as having belonged to the company a part of the Virg. line. It is also stated that her husband was discharged after the surrender of Cornwallis at Little York in Oct 1783.

Corwallis surrendered in Oct 1781. Those who were enlisted were not discharged at that time but the militia were discharged. It is therefore probable that the claim- ants husband served as a militia man. If so, each term of actual service should be particularly specified by witnesses from personal knowledge. If there be a family record of the marriage or of the birth of the witnesses children it should be exhibited. If there be none the fact should be stated by the claimant under oath. Unless the most clear and satisfactory proof be exhibited of the claimants having been married before her husband's service terminated a pension cannot be allowed under act 4 July 1836.
Hon. W. W. Southgate Oct. 10. 1839
Hon. W. W. Southgate Coventry, Ken
S. 4531 at 4 July 1836

Kentucky Roll Suspended Act of 1836
Catharine Gaines wid of Henry Gaines Esq
Paper
J. G. Austin
3864

To the Commissioner of Pensions.
I respectfully request you to allow James G. Austin Esq. of Washington D. C. accept to the papers on file for a Pension in behalf of myself Mrs. Catharine Gains and to allow him all proper facilities in the further prosecution of said claim.
New Columbus, Ky. H. H. Gains.
Feb. 3. 1855. Mrs. H. H. Gains.
Administrator of Cath. Gains Estate.

Copy
June 3 - 1844
Hon R.M. Johnson, Present-
Sir:- -----
Catharine Gaines - Her amended declaration appears to have no other object than to declare her inability to meet & remove the objections indicated to you in my letter to you of 1 Dec r last. Her claim is not made out in any essential respect, and it would appear that she has no claim whatever.
Copied - Sept 30, 1929 M. E. E.

Terric Offc March 8 th 1853
Sir,
I herewith return, in compliance with your request, the papers filed by you in this Office, in relation to the claim of Catherine Gaines, who was the widow of Henry, and whom the Board of Adm. held that Mrs. Gaines' claim, under  under the Act of July 4, 1836, was examined on the 10 th of December 1838, and overruled  overruled for the reasons stated in the accompanying copy of a letter of that date addressed to the Hon. W. W. Southgate. Since the date of that letter, no testimony whatever has been filed in compliance with its requisitions, and another careful examination of the papers has satisfied me that the claim is a very doubtful one; for if the service in the Virginia Cavalry Line was rendered as alleged, it could, doubtless, have been established without much difficulty. There was not only no officer named Blackburn attached to the Virginia

Continental Line - but none of that name attached to the State Line. The service was, probably, rendered in the militia of the  region of which we have no Rolls.
I have
March 3/37.
Hon J. C. Brackenridge Hear of Rep.

Sir
Dec 1843 No. 123
Upon a reexamination of the claim of W m Johnson dec d it is ascertained that the rolls identify & establish his alleged 12mo service in the Va. Line which added to a term of mutua supported by a witness will afford a pension for 50 $ annually from March 31 to the day of his death, payable to his widow if he left one or if no widows to his children — The Genl. M d . certifying the day of his death & the names of children or widow as the case may be Mrs Sarah Terry's claim can not be allowed under the act of 4 July '36 upon the present exhibits but it is repeated that her claim may be allowed under the act of 7 July '38 for the 18mo service of her husband in the Pa. Line if she will assert her claim under that act by a

a declaration under oath before a Justice duly authenticated
In the case of Catharine Gaines it is very clear that her husband was not in Col. Heath's Regiment or in the regular service as manifested by not only from the fact that his name is not borne on the rolls and from the narrative of the incidents of his service - a striking fact of his alleged service was his participation in the service at Petersburg & neighborhood in 1787 - now Col. Heath's Regt. was at the North at the time - the witness John Kirby should state more in detail his knowledge of her husband's service
The militia were called out on various occasions for terms not exceeding three months and it is apparent from some of the facts stated that whatever service he may have re- ndered must have been in the militia
The date of the marriage should prove by a certified copy of the marriage bond the service of her husband subsequent
Wm. R. & K. Johnson to her marriage fully set forth as the rules require Present
Wm. R. Johnson 1883 11/15/85

From the papers in claim R. File 3864 it appears that Catherine Gaines applied for pension Mch. 14, 1838 at which time she was a res. of Owen Co., Ky., and seventy-three years of age.
It is stated that she was married about the first of March 1779, to Henry Gaines who enlisted in May 1779 and marched from Essex Co., Va. as a Pri. under Capt. Christopher Blackburn & Col. Heath of the 3 Va. regt., was at the battles of Petersburg, Isle of Wight Church and Yorktown, and served about two years.
Soldier died July 1, 1814, and her claim was rej. on the ground that she failed to comply with the requirements of the pension act under which she applied.
Their son Henry was referred to. The widow's maiden name and the date of her death are not stated, but in 1855 H. H. Gaines was her administrator.

Pikeville, N.Y. July 7, 1929.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please examine the Pension Roll of Revolutionary soldiers of the American Army for the name of Henry only  Gaines . I think he enlisted from Virginia or South Carolina.
A descendant of his wishes to establish his record as a Revolutionary soldier, in order that she may join the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution.
Please let me have this information as soon as possible. I thank you.
Very truly, Oliver Boggs Newton.

1911 Aug. 5. Hist to Hon Robert L. Taylor for Hon Jno. W. Gaines, later in "misl. correspondence."
1929- Sept 30. Hist to Oliver B. Newton, M.E.E.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
3864
REJECTED
P. O. Catharine Gaines
Service: _____ The printed list of 1852 states "claim not made out"
Enlisted: _____, 18 in any essential respect."
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Gaines, James GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER H206 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 11, 1797 to Calvin Sanger
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.